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@Abbey CIt is perfect for rough undulating ground, not so good for formal bowling green type lawns. in fact I will probably being using mine tomorrow.

Again I something similar, I use a quad bike and a flail mower, the advantage being the quad bike has other uses about the place, trailer towing, dragging etc.

Looks like you successfully removed two ticks at once, think a mummy and daddy tick were making little baby ticks. When I zoomed in on your tick pic it looks like one tick on top of the other. I found exactly the same on my dogs eye brow last week.

Looks like a double tick there Rich

I prefer to call my dog “the ginger tick magnet” took 6 of her yesterday, averaging about 3 or 4 a day just now, I use the V shaped plastic tick tool and twist away.

Little tick buggers are out in force just now, I check my dog every night, 5 on her last night, 4 of which were bitten in and one was strolling about, it was 3 on her the night before. I had one bitten into me 2 weeks ago, I usually get one a year bitten into me, only ever had one that bullseyed and got a course of ABs for that.

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Yippee totally agree, just didn’t know how generic they were.

Was round helping a friend last week, as we finished up he said he had an old chainsaw in a few bits in a poly bag, that hadn’t been used for a few years and would I like it. Well of course I would it would be rude not to take it. An Efco MT3700 lurked inside. Brought it home and stripped out the carb the diaphragms which were crispy so got a generic repair kit and a spark plug, changed them today, Put the main body back together, few squeezes of the primer bulb, 1/2 dozen pulls and it sparks into life. Runs quite well. Was going to but the bar and chain on and give it a wee sharpen then a proper test, alas it was not to be as the chain tensioner screw is missing. How generic are these screws, I can find lots of generic tensioner screws on Amazon and eBay for about £6, but when I google the model number and part I only found a couple of places, one in USA and one in Europe that were wanting £25 inc postage to UK, for a wee homeowner saw I don’t think that is worth it. Is it my google skills that are letting me down or will one of the generic screw fit. Ta folks.

My Avatar is the result of an angle grinder disk get nipped in the cut and kicking out leaving a gash at the side of my knee. I use angle grinders a lot that that has been my only injury so far, touching wood.

If it is the smell I am thinking of, it reminds me of cigar boxes from the 70’s. 😀And don’t listen to them, it is a fantastic firewood if it’s free😀

I concerned for the person in the background who has by the looks of it been hung, you are wearing meat processing gloves, this is beginning to look like a scene from Fargo😀

I’m a Charnwood fan, made in UK.

Posted a pic of this before, made from and old sleeper and some old fence stabs. Only use it when I have loads of limbs like that to cut, usually cut the limb with it sitting on top of other chopped logs.

Unless it’s a horrendous recovery to get it to where you are processing it then it is well worth the effort. As I said I burn a lot of willow and it has certainly kept me warm for many a year.